Check-holder.



T. ROSS.

CHECK HOLDER.

APPLICATIONHLEP APR. I5. 1916. 1,197,402. PatentedSept. 5,1916.

I/VVEIVTUR Ton Ross W/ T/VESSES Arrok/vns TONY ROSS, OF MARIANNA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHECK-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

Application filed April 15, 1916. Serial No. 91,345.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TONY Ross, a subject of the King of Italy, and a resident of Marianna, in the county of Vashington and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Check-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention more particularly relates to a device to hold a check on a mine car, and permit the removal of the check when the car is dumped, so that the collected checks will constitute a tally of the loads.

Another object of the invention is to so hold the check as to necessitate the use of a strong magnet for gaining access thereto whereby to guard against tampering by workmen whom it may be reasonably expected will not possess the required magnet for the purpose.

An object of my invention is to provide a holder of the indicated character, into which the check may be dropped, and to provide means for preventing escape of the check, said means being adapted to be withdrawn under the influence of a magnet, by the authorized attendant.

The invention has for its object to provide a check holder of the character described, improved in various particulars, to the end that efliciency of operation may be promoted, as well a simplicity of construction and economy of manufacture.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a check holder embodying my invention, showing the same applied; Fig. 2 is a face view thereof, parts being broken away; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section.

In constructing a practical embodiment of my invention, in accordance with the illustrated example, a box-like body is so formed as to provide a vertical slot 10 ex tending through the holder from top to bottom. The body is composed of a back plate 11 and a front plate 12, the latter of which is formed with a depression to provide the slot 10 when the plates are assembled. The plates are formed respectively with lateral ears 13, 14, to receive a screw 15, or the like, for securing the holder to a mine car, a

portion of which is conventionally shown and indicated by the letter A.

. The slot 10 receives the usual round check 13, which is adapted to be entered in the slot at the top; to prevent escape of the check B from the bottom of the slot 10, until the checker wishes to remove it, I provide a stop 16 in the form of a pin disposed transversely in the holder. The head of the pin is accommodated in a transverse bore 17 which communicates with the slot 10. The reduced shank 18 of the pin moves in a counter-bore 19 extending to the face of the holder. ()n the reduced shank 18 is a compression spring 20 coiled around the said shank in the rear of the head 16.

The spring 20 normally tends to project the head of the pin 16 into the slot 10, so as to constitute a rest and stop for the check B. The outer end of the shank 18 is flush with the face of the holder, so as to present no projection that might be grasped by the fingers. The pin is formed of iron or steel responsive to magnetic force exerted at the outer end of the shank to withdraw the pin, there being conventionally indicated in the drawing a. magnet C.

.V ith the described construction, the miner is required only to drop the check into the slot where it will be retained by the pin until the load is to be dumped, when the checker may cause the withdrawal of the pin from the slot by presenting the magnet C to the outer end of the pin.

To exclude dirt from the check holder the slot 10 may be closed by a transverse pin 21 removably fitting in registering holes 22 in the front 12 at each side of the depression forming the slot 10.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A check holder of the character described provided with means whereby to secure it in position, and having a slot extending therethrough from top to bottom to receive a check at the top and permit its escape at the bottom, said holder having also a transverse bore extending from the face of the holder to the slot, a pin slidable in said bore and adapted to project into the slot to constitute a rest and stop for a check, the outer end of the pin being non-project ing at the end of the holder, and a spring tending to project the pin in the slot, said pin being formed of material responsive to magnetic force to Withdraw the pin and the spring being yieldable to magnetic Withdrawal force exerted on the pin.

2. A check holder of the character described comprising a back plate, a front plate having a vertical depression forming a slot extending through the holder from top to bottom adapted to receive a check, said depression being covered at the rear by said back plate, means to secure said plates together and to the car, a check stop extending through the said front plate from front to rear, and a spring normally projecting the said stop across the slot to ar- 15 rest a check, said stop being formed of material responsive to magnetic force for the Withdrawal thereof against the tension of the spring.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 20 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

hi TONY X ROSS.

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Witnesses:

J. M. HARRIs, M. D. SURMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

